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Archaeology

What Does a Pig Skeleton Discovered in Jerusalem Say About First Temple Era Jews?

Remains of piglet from 2,700 years ago support the theory that ancient Israelites occasionally did eat pork, and the biblical taboo on this animal was only first observed in Second Temple era, Israeli archaeologists say

How Coffee Revolutionized Jerusalem Social Life in the 16th Century

How Medieval Jewish Sages Felt About Push-up Bras

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Submerged Roman Road Shows Venice May Have Been Inhabited Early On Submerged Roman Road Shows Venice May Have Been Inhabited Earlier Than Thought

Archaeology Has a Problem With Females and Figurines in Israel Archaeology Has a Problem With Females and Figurines in Israel and the Levant

Israeli Archaeologists Find New Section of Jerusalem’s Ancient Defensive Wall

Israeli Archaeologists Find Biblical Name ‘Jerubbaal’ Inked on Pot From Judges Era

Luxurious Banquet Hall, Erected Near Temple Mount, Unearthed in Jerusalem

Researchers: Civilization Collapsed in 1200 B.C.E. but the Silver Trade Didn’t Civilization May Have Collapsed in 1200 B.C.E. but the Silver Trade Didn’t, Researchers Discover

Neanderthals Boiled and Carved a Deer Bone 51,000 Years Ago Neanderthals Boiled and Carved a Deer Bone 51,000 Years Ago, Archaeologists Say

Where Archaeology Can’t Go: Fecal Signals in Lake Reveal Mayan Secrets

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A fossilized Squalicorax tooth from the Jerusalem site.

The First Paleontologist? Shark Teeth Found in City of David Baffle Archaeologists The World's First Paleontologist? Shark Teeth Found in City of David Baffle Archaeologists

Madaba’s portrayal of Jerusalem. The city of Christ’s Passion, without a hint of its Jewish past.

Why Roads Aren't Marked on the Earliest Map of the Holy Land Why Roads Aren't Marked on the Madaba Map, the Earliest Map of the Holy Land

A pestle seen from above.

Prehistoric People in Israel May Have Had Trading System 15,000 Years Ago

Cranium of 5,000-year-old Latvian who had earliest known strain of Yersinia pestis

Earliest Strain of Plague Found in 5,000-year-old Body in Latvia Earliest Strain of Plague Found in 5,000-year-old Latvian Man, and It Was Mild

Original excavation photograph of "Tsukumo 24" - a man who had been attacked by a shark around 3,000 years ago

Archaeologists Resolve Enigma of Man Savaged 3,000 Years Ago in Japan

A reconstruction of Dragon Man in his habitat.

Israelis Think New Chinese Hominin 'Dragon Man' May Be Homo Nesher Israeli Archaeologists Think New Chinese Hominin 'Dragon Man' May Be Homo Nesher

Homo Nesher Ramle,: The skull parts that were discovered

New Type of Ancient Human Discovered in Israel: Homo Nesher Ramla New Type of Prehistoric Human Discovered in Israel: Homo Nesher Ramla

A digital reconstruction of the new Mesozoic bird fossil skeleton.

A Bird the Size of Your Fist Had a Head Like a T-rex

Denisova Cave

Archaeologists Discover Who Really Lived in Siberia's Denisova Cave

Replica of neanderthals at the Helms Museum in Hamburg

Did Modern Humans and Neanderthals Really Meet in Israel's South?

Ushabti of Psusennes I and Wendjebaendjedet

Where Ancient Egypt Got Its Metal After Civilization Collapsed in 1200 BCE Israeli Archaeologists Figure Out Where Ancient Egypt Got Its Metal After Civilization Collapsed

The coastline at Tel Dor.

Archaeologists Baffled by Sea Level Rise on Israeli Coast in Hellenistic Period

Marks of modern humans: Upper Paleolithic flint tools at the site of Boker Tachtit in the Negev

Earliest Stone Tools Linked to Modern Humans Outside Africa Found in Israel

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Murder Most Fowl: Chickens in Antiquity Lived Longer Murder Most Fowl: Chickens in Antiquity Lived Longer Than Today’s Birds

The Queen of Sheba before the temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, by Salomon de Bray (1597-1664)

Who Really Destroyed Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem?

Levantine female figurines

Birth Rites in Canaan: The Enigma of the Figurines Birth Rites in Canaan: The Enigma of the Nude Female Figurines

The 1,000-year-old egg found in an ancient Yavneh cesspit.

Israeli Archaeologists Find Whole 1,000-year-old Egg – and Accidentally Break It

Bear

Case Closed: 35,000-year-old Murder of a Bear Finally Solved

E-Tell before it was flooded by the rising Sea of Galilee: This is believed by Prof. Mordechai Aviam to be the site of biblical Bethsaida

Israeli, Italian Colleges to Collaborate on ‘Bethsaida,’ Etruscan Archaeology

The landscape of the Tehuacán Valley region in south-central Mexico.

What Were Rabbits and Deer Doing in a Cave in Mexico 30,000 Years Ago?

Aerial view of the Ashkelon basilica

Israeli Archaeologists Resurrecting Herod's Monumental Basilica in Ashkelon Israeli Archaeologists Resurrecting King Herod's Monumental Basilica in Ashkelon

A double burial at Jebel Sahaba, Sudan, from the war some 13,000 years ago.

World’s ‘First War’ 13,400 Years Ago Was Not Isolated Event World’s ‘First War’ 13,400 Years Ago Wasn't Isolated Episode but Series of Events

The area of Gath where the bone arrowhead was found. The round structure in the foreground is an oil press

The Last Stand of the Philistines: Archaeologists Find Clue to the Fall of Gath

The excavation of the White Monument, revealing some of the many layers that make up the mound

Mysterious Mound in Syria May Be Oldest War Memorial in the World Mysterious Mound in Syria May Be Oldest War Memorial in the World, Archaeologists Say

Giving the notorious letter to Uriah: Eating catfish may have been the least of King David's sins (painted by Pieter Pietersz Lastman in 1611)

Israeli Archaeologists Discover What Ancient Judeans Actually Ate

An elephant in Chobe National Park, Botswana..

Israeli Archaeologists Resolve Ages-old Evolutionary Conundrum Israeli Archaeologists Resolve Ages-old Evolutionary Conundrum: Enter the Elephant and the Hand Ax

Dr. Eilat Mazar, holding King Hezekiah's seal, which is also shown behind her

Dr. Eilat Mazar, Archaeologist of Ancient Jerusalem, Dies Dr. Eilat Mazar, Doyenne of Ancient Jerusalem Archaeology, Dies

The amulet found in the Arbel moshav featuring four Greek letters: I A W Θ.

Ancient Demon Repellent Returned to Israeli Authorities After 40 Years Byzantine-period Demon Repellent Returned to Israeli Authorities After 40 Years

Palestinian fruit vendor Shaher Abu Yamin, 36, poses for a picture while balancing three watermelons on his head near the West Bank refugee camp of Kalandia, 2014.

Where Did Watermelon Originate? Genetics Answers Age-old Mystery

Podarcis waglerianus

Why Wall Lizards Are the Most Successful Reptile in the Mediterranean

Rock art

Earliest Art Survived 45,000 Years. Now It's Peeling Due to Climate Change Earliest Art Survived 45,000 Years: Now It’s Peeling Due to Climate Change

A primeval caveman holding a bone and hitting a rock with it.

Neanderthals Ate Carbs Too, Fossil Plaque Study Finds

A flower detail in stone at the Hippos archaeological site.

Excavating Hippos and the Last Roman Theater in the World

Members of the Korubo indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon rain forest.

Fossil Feces Analysis Shows How Human Diet Changed Over 2,000 Years

The rare grotesque mask that served as a foundation deposit in a Jerusalemite building

Archaeologists Find 'Grotesque' Oil Lamp as a Foundation Deposit in Jerusalem

Virtual ideal reconstruction of Mtoto’s position in the burial pit at Panga ya Saidi Cave, Kenya.

Human Toddler From 78,000 Years Ago Found Buried With Head on a Pillow Human Toddler From 78,000 Years Ago Found Buried With Head on a Pillow in African Cave

Richly embroidered cuffs found in the Bjerringhøj mound in Denmark

Museum Finds Missing Viking Over a Century After Losing His Remains

Excavation at Paipelgak

Archaeology in the Siberian Permafrost: How the paleo-Eskimos Survived Siberian Archaeology Reveals How paleo-Eskimos Survived and Hunted Whales

A group of mustatils in northwest Saudi Arabia

Archaeologists Find Prehistoric Cultic Monuments in Saudi Arabia

A letter written by Nehemia ben Kohen Tzedek in Baghdad in 950 C.E., which is part of the Mosseri Collection.

A Wandering Jewish Treasure, Looking for a Permanent Home

ICYMI

There’s Something New About Hamas’ Leader in Gaza Since the War. Israel Is Concerned There’s Something New About Hamas’ Leader in Gaza Since the War – and Israel Is Concerned

Where Bibi Went, NSO Followed: How Israel Pushed Cyberweapon Sales Where Netanyahu Went, NSO Followed: How Israel Pushed Cyberweapon Sales

The 20 Most Promising Israeli Startups to Follow in 2021

Has America Got the Holocaust All Wrong?

Horrified by Racism, Moroccan Immigrants in Israel Warned Families Not to Follow 'We Saw Jews With Hearts Like Germans': Moroccan Immigrants in Israel Warned Families Not to Follow

Orthodox, Female and Running Their Own Shuls – Just Don’t Call Them Rabbis